EQ2Interface - Multiple UI Configuration Directive

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Multiple UI Configuration Directive

Hey all. I was wondering if anyone know if there will be plans in the future to allow multiple UI directives in the eq2.ini file. What I would like to see is allowing multiple directives in the file so you don't have to use one directory for everything. Let me give an example:

I use EQ2Map and currently I have to place everything in it's directory. And since I don't use a full UI set and only grab certain specific items to use in my UI the directory gets a little messy. I don't know if this is even possible or not to do but it would be nice to see. So the way I envision it:

c:\program files\sony\eq2\ui\eq2map
c:\program files\sony\eq2\ui\new_journal_window
c:\program files\sony\eq2\ui\new_xp_bar
c:\program files\sony\eq2\ui\new_group_window

and so on. that way it would be cleaner and if i wanted to get rid of a certain mod i could just delete the directory and directive. Could this be done?

Thanks!

Yes this can be done now but not sure it is worth the headache. Maybe later there will be a better way.

You could put the eq2ui.xml file or the specific mode type file in your UI folder and change the mods that you have to include in a folder. Then if you delete that mod edit the eq2ui file to remove that. An example. . .

Inventory window

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<Page ismodule="true" Name="Inventory" PackSize="1,1" PackSizeProp="0002/0003,0002/0003" ScrollExtent="1024,768" Size="1024,768" Visible="false">

<include>eq2ui_inventory_bag.xml</include>

</Page>

Change that to say

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<Page ismodule="true" Name="Inventory" PackSize="1,1" PackSizeProp="0002/0003,0002/0003" ScrollExtent="1024,768" Size="1024,768" Visible="false">

<include>/CustomBag/eq2ui_inventory_bag.xml</include>

</Page>

And when you get rid of that custom bag just delete the folder name. You could probably get away with just the MainHud, Invintory, and maybe Tradskills windows. Personaly I find this is more of a headache than having a neat folder.

Another option (the one I do) is have my UI folder have my main UI in it with all my custom files (I call it MixMatch). Then I have a 2nd folder called Base. In the Base folder I have folders for each mod that I use. The game will always call my MixMatch folder. If the MixMatch folder gets messed up, or I delete a mod on accident, or don't remember all the files I need to delete, I just delete the entire MixMatch folder and copy over the mods from my Base folder back into mix match.

It would be nice to have a check box system like WoW though, where you can activated/deactivate mods.